Hey guys, I got this update from Yoast this morning: https://yoast.com/google-helpful-con...ent=textlink-1 looking at the requirements, I am not seeing how especially content writers/bloggers will be able to do this. For example, I am a pc repair tech and was thinking of blogging but I cannot find hardly anything which hasn't been written about in my niche. There are lots of articles which covers everything in pc repair so nothing new for someone unless every whenever when one new thing might pop up like a new virus or something and by the time I should find out about it and write about it the net would already have been flooded with the same info. I imagine it will be the same in most niches.
The writers will start to invent the news, just like the reporters for the offline newspapers. As far as I remember, there was at least one case, when the reporter has obtained the Pulitzer Prize for the reports about the events, which were not real, but the invention of the reporter. The public will read about the scientific discoveries, which are not possible, about the computer hardware, which will never exist, and so on.
I have never concerned myself with what has already been blogged. I just write according to the niche I offer.
There's been data released since this update and writing about the same topics wasn't a factor. I'll say you want to be thorough in your seo including on-page and off. Build authority (topical) quickly as possible. Site's with no or poor seo, limited amount of content published, no backlinks, no authority got hit the worst.